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Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 100 ratings · 13 Jan 1989 · English · 1h 48m · Released
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.
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Landline
Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 21 Jul 2017 · English
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Wildflower
Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 17 Mar 2023 · English
The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
Life Is Sweet
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 22 Mar 1991 · English
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Riff-Raff
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 21 Jun 1991 · English
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
The Joneses
Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 16 Apr 2010 · English
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Family Weekend
Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 28 Mar 2013 · English
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
SubUrbia
Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 7 Feb 1997 · English
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Nil by Mouth
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 10 Oct 1997 · English
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
Meantime
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 16 Oct 1983 · English
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
Night and the City
Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 15 Jun 1950 · English
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
CQ
Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 12 May 2001 · English
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
Night Always Comes
Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 15 Aug 2025 · English
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.